I Haven't Been This Excited for New Cards in Over a Year

So yesterday we got revealed on some of that hot Dark Structure Deck that had retrains of Dark King Diabolos. I've always been someone to play Structure Deck decks and then make them high rarity anyways to show off, so I was excited.

Then they teased us for a bit and said something along the lines of "hey you can activate Virus Traps from the deck eks dee" and I was even more interested. The way they described it sounded like Dark Worlds, an old favorite of mine that I bubbled 2 different regionals with. Guess my last top I'll ever get will be stuck in 2014 :[

And now they have finally shown off the whole shebang.

:wowzers:

This is the level of hype I had for Dinosaurs when they were first shown off, and judging by how I've made, what? 2 in-depth deck profiles of them over the last year? Yeah this is looking good.

In fact, I'm so gay for the new cards that I already made proxies of them. And now that I have them, I'm gonna both show them off as well as talk about why these cards are just

fuckin

THEY MAKE ME ROCK SOLID

Let's start off with the big boy. Diabolos is the boss monster, and he isn't quite Conductor level, but he is definitely funny.

"If a DARK monster(s) you control is Tributed, and this card is in your hand or GY: You can Special Summon this card."

He Summons himself by doing what the deck does inherently like the Counter Fairy guy, but unlike Counter Fairy guy, you can actually Summon him on turn 1 instead of bricking with him. Good job, guy.

"Cannot be Tributed by your opponent, also your opponent cannot target this card with card effects."

:white_check_mark: Can't be Kaijud

:white_check_mark: Can't be targeted

:white_check_mark: Loses to Conductor

God damn it Konami you were so close. Even then, protection from Kaijus is actually insane for a 3k body. We basically have a new Dark Destroyer kek @IV

This involves cards that I'll go over later on, but I also like that, in the mirror match, he also is immune to anything the opponent would do via the Field Spell. Nice touch.

"Once per turn, you can Tribute 1 DARK monster; your opponent chooses 1 card from their hand for you to return to either the top or bottom of the Deck."

HNNNNNG HAND DESTRUCTION IS BACK

Good thing I have a playset of Ultra Mind Crush ready to go for this deck :^))))))

Memes aside, this is actually my favorite part of his effect. I've always wanted to play a deck that attacks the hand and wasn't stupid and dumb like Dark Synchro. Dark Worlds, again, did that with Dragged Down and the Viruses. I'm a degenerate player and I'm okay with that.

Good God this card is going to be total waifu bait for the weebs, isn't it? >:[

"If this card is Normal Summoned, it's original ATK becomes 1000."

This effect is actually pretty relevant. It means that Lilith can act as either a Crush Card target (if you Normal her) or a Deck Devastation target (if you Set / Special her). The two are pretty meta dependent in terms of being good, but it's nice to actually have that option to play in different ways based on what other cards you draw.

"(Quick Effect): You can Tribute 1 DARK monster; reveal 3 Normal Trap cards from your Deck, your opponent chooses 1 at random to Set, also shuffle the rest back into the Deck."

So uuuuuuuuuuuh Tribute herself and reveal 3 D-Barrier. Cool? Cool.

This effect is actually rad as shit, real talk. We can now essentially Power Tool into Eradicator.

God I wish Dark Worlds existed at the same time as this card.

He's just a dog. Not that it's a bad thing, but I know I'll just end up saying "Normal Good Boy" when I'm playing this deck.

"You can discard this card; add 1 'Lair of Darkness' from your Deck to your hand."

Mmmmmmmy consistencyyyyyyyyyyy

Search is love, search is life.

"You can Tribute 1 DARK monster; draw 1 card, or, if a DARK monster other than this card was Tributed to activate this effect, you can add 1 DARK monster with 2000 or more DEF from your Deck to your hand instead of drawing."

So he tutors both the Field Spell and Diabolos. Consistency is cool.

Also he's basically just Lonefire Blossom into Diabolos if you have another Dark to sack. I'm digging this.

Is that what I think I see?

A Field Spell for a Structure Deck?

OWO

These are always broken, don't let me down @Konami

"All face-up monsters on the field become DARK-Attribute."

>activate this

>flip shadow imprisoning mirror

>dab

"Once per turn, if you would Tribute a monster(s) to activate a card or card effect, you can Tribute 1 DARK monster your opponent controls as if you controlled it."

And boom goes the dynamite like holy shit

This card should have never been made.

So now every Tributing card in the game can be abused by using your opponent's resources, such as:

This

And this

And this

And this

We can now basically Kaiju our opponent on their turn, this is not okay.

"Once per turn, during the End Phase: Special Summon to the turn player's field, in Defense position, as many 'Shadow Tokens' (Fiend/DARK/Level 3/ATK 1000/DEF 1000) as possible, up to the number of monsters that were Tributed while this card was face-up on the field this turn."

This effect seems at first to be here to balance the card out so that it isn't so broken.

Little did they know

I'm about to abuse the shit out of this

Literally all we do is sack our monsters during our turn to use their effects (like Lilith and Ahrima), get Tokens out during the End Phase and save them for Crush Card fodder. Or, if Lilith is out, we can also Tribute those same Tokens we got during the End Phase before to set even more Traps from the deck.

And if I really wanted to I can Summon Plasma with them.

My secrets are ready.

OWO a new Virus card?? xD

I hate myself.

"Tribute 1 DARK monster with 3000 or less ATK:"

Let's stop right there. A virus card that can be used with just about any monster in the game in conjunction with Lair of Darkness makes this an automatic staple in the deck. This kind of utility is ridiculous.

"your opponent destroys 1 card from their hand and/or Deck for every 500 ATK the Tributed monster had, also, if a DARK monster with 2000 or more ATK was Tributed to activate this card, check all cards your opponent draws until the end of thir 3rd turn after this card's activation, and destroy all monsters among them, also cards sent to the Graveyard because they were destroyed by this card's effect cannot activate their effects during the turn they were destroyed."

The effect is just so middling, honestly. Hitting draws is always cool and can win whole games, but this card doesn't force your opponent to actually destroy anything from their hand. The Virus cards were always as good as they were because they would result in hand advantage as well as seeing your opponent's hand as you have to confirm that they destroyed everything affected by the Virus. This just doesn't do that. It's essentially 4 free Foolish Burials, something that just about every meta deck can take advantage of. Deck Dev, Eradicator and even Crush Card are just better and give you more advantage.

It's probably fine in the side though, depending on match-ups and how the meta evolves.

Either way, I'm picking this shit up on the day of release. There's so much that I want to test with this stuff.

Especially these two.

I have a feeling we have the next competitive Structure Deck on our hands.

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